30 Facts About Ted Rall

Frederick Theodore Rall III was born on August 26,1963 and is an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author.

Ted Rall was president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 2008 to 2009.

Ted Rall writes and draws cartoons for the tech and politics news site founded by journalist Gina Smith, aNewDomain, and is the editor-in-chief of the satirical news website skewednews.

Ted Rall is a graphic novelist and the author of non-fiction books about domestic and international current affairs.

Ted Rall returned to Afghanistan in August 2010, traveling independently and unembedded throughout the country, filing daily "cartoon blogs" by satellite.

Frederick Theodore Ted Rall III was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1963, and raised in Kettering, Ohio, near Dayton.

Ted Rall graduated from Fairmont West High School, in 1981.

From 1981 to 1984, Rall attended Columbia University's engineering school, where he contributed cartoons to the campus newspapers, including the Columbia Daily Spectator, Barnard Bulletin, and the Jester.

Ted Rall failed to complete his studies in the engineering school, where he majored in applied physics and nuclear engineering, but returned to graduate several years later from Columbia's School of General Studies in 1991 with a bachelor of arts, with honors, in history.

Ted Rall says his drawing style was originally influenced by Mike Peters, the editorial cartoonist at his hometown paper, the Dayton Daily News.

Ted Rall's 1990s work focused on the issues and concerns surrounding twentysomethings and Generation X, terms coined in the late 1980s to describe people born from the early to mid 1960s to the mid 1980s.

Ted Rall wrote op-ed columns for The New York Times, including "Why I Will Not Vote", which justified apathy among Generation Xers who saw neither Democrats nor Republicans responding to their concerns.

In 1998 Rall published "Revenge of the Latchkey Kids", a compendium of essays and cartoons that criticized the Baby Boomer-dominated media for ignoring and ridiculing young adults and their achievements.

Ted Rall's cartoons have appeared regularly in Rolling Stone, Time, Fortune and Men's Health magazines, as well as Mad magazine and were for several years the most reproduced cartoons in The New York Times.

Ted Rall returned to the region for POV in 1999 to travel the Karakoram Highway from Kashgar, in western China, to Islamabad.

Ted Rall returned to Tajikistan, Xinjiang Province in western China and Pakistan during the summer of 2007.

From 2006 to 2009, Rall was editor of Acquisitions and Development at the comic strip syndicate United Media.

Ted Rall's work includes the book The Anti-American Manifesto, published in September 2010.

Ted Rall contributes a cartoon called "Left Coast" to the Pasadena Weekly.

Ted Rall had a Saturday and Sunday radio talk show on KFI radio in Los Angeles from August 1998 to August 2000.

Ted Rall's show was broadcast live from Havana as well as Pakistani-held Kashmir.

Ted Rall has been a frequent guest on National Public Radio, the BBC and Fox Radio.

Ted Rall is an atheist and writes some cartoons dealing with these views.

In 1999, Ted Rall wrote an article in The Village Voice accusing Maus creator Art Spiegelman of lacking talent and controlling who gets high-profile assignments from magazines such as The New Yorker through personal connections, including his wife, New Yorker art editor Francoise Mouly.

However, pledges are no longer being solicited, and in a December 27,2006 blog entry, Rall posted an email that was sent to pledged contributors to the lawsuit, stating that his attorneys had determined, "The road ahead is too uncertain to justify spending thousands of dollars of pledges, not to mention my own money".

In July 2015, the Los Angeles Times released a "note to readers" stating that Ted Rall had been dropped from the paper because of allegations that he had recently lied about a 2001 encounter with the police.

The Los Angeles Police Department claimed that Rall misrepresented the encounter in a May 2015 opinion blog post he wrote about enforcement of jaywalking laws in Los Angeles.

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, whom Rall had repeatedly mocked in his cartoons for the LA Times, provided a copy of an audio recording of the encounter that the LA Times found to "raise serious questions about the accuracy of Rall's blog post".

In March 2016, Ted Rall filed suit against the Los Angeles Times for defamation of character and wrongful termination; in June 2017, the judge in the case dismissed claims against four individuals for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress; claims against the former and current LA Times corporate ownership remain.

Ted Rall appealed the lower-court dismissal to the California Court of Appeals.